Re: 48-bit LBA/137GB large hard disk capacity barrier(OT)

[Frank]

David H. Lipman wrote:

> "David H. Lipman" > wrote in message
> ...

>> "Mark Derbyshire" > wrote in message
>> ...

>>> "David H. Lipman" > came forth with
>>> the following in microsoft.public.windowsxp.hardware
>>>> The Operating system needs to see the entire disk. This is done
>>>> by installing WinXP SP1.
>>> I don't see why
>>> I can see my two 160Gb drives, and I haven't got SP1 installed
--
>>> Mark

I cannot in my wildest dreams imagine what I could put on a PC to even
begin to use 320GB, (legally that is)

[David H. Lipman]

Easy....

Very large databases.
6.3 or greater megapixel JPEGs
MOV, AVI or other Digital Video files

That's good for a start.

Dave



"Frank" > wrote in message ...

| I cannot in my wildest dreams imagine what I could put on a PC to even
| begin to use 320GB, (legally that is)
|
|

[Tom Barclay]

> >>> "David H. Lipman" > came forth with
> >>> the following in microsoft.public.windowsxp.hardware
> >>>> The Operating system needs to see the entire disk. This is done
> >>>> by installing WinXP SP1.
> >>> I don't see why
> >>> I can see my two 160Gb drives, and I haven't got SP1 installed
> --
> >>> Mark

> I cannot in my wildest dreams imagine what I could put on a PC to even
> begin to use 320GB, (legally that is)

I do. As a photographer, I routinely scan slides to .TIFF files, each of
which vary between 20MB and 80MB, depending on the resolution quality
desired. Customers would have a tough time making a life size portrait from
a 2MB JPEG.

[Mark Derbyshire]

"Frank" > came forth with the following in
microsoft.public.windowsxp.hardware

>
> I cannot in my wildest dreams imagine what I could put on a PC to even
> begin to use 320GB, (legally that is)
>

Video Capture

PC Games (each one is about 1Gb-1.5Gb now days)

--
Mark

[Frank]

Tom Barclay wrote:
>>>>> "David H. Lipman" > came forth with
>>>>> the following in microsoft.public.windowsxp.hardware
>>>>>> The Operating system needs to see the entire disk. This is
>>>>>> done by installing WinXP SP1.
>>>>> I don't see why
>>>>> I can see my two 160Gb drives, and I haven't got SP1 installed
>> --
>>>>> Mark
>
>> I cannot in my wildest dreams imagine what I could put on a PC to
>> even begin to use 320GB, (legally that is)
>
> I do. As a photographer, I routinely scan slides to .TIFF files,
> each of which vary between 20MB and 80MB, depending on the
> resolution quality desired. Customers would have a tough time
> making a life size portrait from a 2MB JPEG.

You are in the Photography business, not Joe Sixpack sitting at
home surfing the web.

[Tom Barclay]

"Frank" > wrote in message
...
> Tom Barclay wrote:
> >>>>> "David H. Lipman" > came forth with
> >>>>> the following in microsoft.public.windowsxp.hardware
> >>>>>> The Operating system needs to see the entire disk. This is
> >>>>>> done by installing WinXP SP1.
> >>>>> I don't see why
> >>>>> I can see my two 160Gb drives, and I haven't got SP1 installed
> >> --
> >>>>> Mark
> >
> >> I cannot in my wildest dreams imagine what I could put on a PC to
> >> even begin to use 320GB, (legally that is)
> >
> > I do. As a photographer, I routinely scan slides to .TIFF files,
> > each of which vary between 20MB and 80MB, depending on the
> > resolution quality desired. Customers would have a tough time
> > making a life size portrait from a 2MB JPEG.
>
> You are in the Photography business, not Joe Sixpack sitting at
> home surfing the web.

And you're Tony Troll, the all seeing, all knowing expert on what we all do
for a living. Get a life dork. You don't know me, or anyone else here for
that matter.
--
__________________________________________________ ___
If builders built buildings the way programmers wrote programs, then
the first woodpecker that came along would destroy civilization.

[Gary Tait]

On Tue, 6 Jan 2004 21:20:33 -0500, "Frank" > wrote:


>I cannot in my wildest dreams imagine what I could put on a PC to even
>begin to use 320GB, (legally that is)
>

With fair use rights, I can put anything on my HDD for my convenience,
therefore nothing would be illegal (with regards to how I acquire the
material), except certain content that in itself would be illegal, no
matter where I got it.

[Daniel L. Belton]

Frank wrote:

> David H. Lipman wrote:
>
>
>>"David H. Lipman" > wrote in message
...
>
>
>>>"Mark Derbyshire" > wrote in message
...
>
>
>>>>"David H. Lipman" > came forth with
>>>>the following in microsoft.public.windowsxp.hardware
>>>>
>>>>>The Operating system needs to see the entire disk. This is done
>>>>>by installing WinXP SP1.
>>>>
>>>>I don't see why
>>>>I can see my two 160Gb drives, and I haven't got SP1 installed
>
> --
>
>>>>Mark
>
>
> I cannot in my wildest dreams imagine what I could put on a PC to even
> begin to use 320GB, (legally that is)
>
>

If a person does much video editing or rendering, then they can very
easily use 320GB of disk space.

[Frank]

Tom Barclay wrote:
> "Frank" > wrote in message
> ...
>> Tom Barclay wrote:
>>>>>>> "David H. Lipman" > came forth
>>>>>>> with the following in microsoft.public.windowsxp.hardware
>>>>>>>> The Operating system needs to see the entire disk. This is
>>>>>>>> done by installing WinXP SP1.
>>>>>>> I don't see why
>>>>>>> I can see my two 160Gb drives, and I haven't got SP1 installed
>>>> --
>>>>>>> Mark
>>>
>>>> I cannot in my wildest dreams imagine what I could put on a PC to
>>>> even begin to use 320GB, (legally that is)
>>>
>>> I do. As a photographer, I routinely scan slides to .TIFF files,
>>> each of which vary between 20MB and 80MB, depending on the
>>> resolution quality desired. Customers would have a tough time
>>> making a life size portrait from a 2MB JPEG.
>>
>> You are in the Photography business, not Joe Sixpack sitting at
>> home surfing the web.
>
> And you're Tony Troll, the all seeing, all knowing expert on what
> we all do for a living. Get a life dork. You don't know me, or
> anyone else here for that matter.

Your the one with the problem not me.....

[Tom Barclay]

"Frank" > wrote in message
...
> Tom Barclay wrote:
> > "Frank" > wrote in message
> > ...
> >> Tom Barclay wrote:
> >>>>>>> "David H. Lipman" > came forth
> >>>>>>> with the following in microsoft.public.windowsxp.hardware
> >>>>>>>> The Operating system needs to see the entire disk. This is
> >>>>>>>> done by installing WinXP SP1.
> >>>>>>> I don't see why
> >>>>>>> I can see my two 160Gb drives, and I haven't got SP1 installed
> >>>> --
> >>>>>>> Mark
> >>>
> >>>> I cannot in my wildest dreams imagine what I could put on a PC to
> >>>> even begin to use 320GB, (legally that is)
> >>>
> >>> I do. As a photographer, I routinely scan slides to .TIFF files,
> >>> each of which vary between 20MB and 80MB, depending on the
> >>> resolution quality desired. Customers would have a tough time
> >>> making a life size portrait from a 2MB JPEG.
> >>
> >> You are in the Photography business, not Joe Sixpack sitting at
> >> home surfing the web.
> >
> > And you're Tony Troll, the all seeing, all knowing expert on what
> > we all do for a living. Get a life dork. You don't know me, or
> > anyone else here for that matter.
>
> Your the one with the problem not me.....

Can you say " welcome to the killfile"... plonk!

[Frank]

Tom Barclay wrote:
> "Frank" > wrote in message
> ...
>> Tom Barclay wrote:
>>> "Frank" > wrote in message
>>> ...
>>>> Tom Barclay wrote:
>>>>>>>>> "David H. Lipman" > came forth
>>>>>>>>> with the following in microsoft.public.windowsxp.hardware
>>>>>>>>>> The Operating system needs to see the entire disk. This is
>>>>>>>>>> done by installing WinXP SP1.
>>>>>>>>> I don't see why
>>>>>>>>> I can see my two 160Gb drives, and I haven't got SP1
>>>>>>>>> installed
>>>>>> --
>>>>>>>>> Mark
>>>>>
>>>>>> I cannot in my wildest dreams imagine what I could put on a PC
>>>>>> to even begin to use 320GB, (legally that is)
>>>>>
>>>>> I do. As a photographer, I routinely scan slides to .TIFF files,
>>>>> each of which vary between 20MB and 80MB, depending on the
>>>>> resolution quality desired. Customers would have a tough time
>>>>> making a life size portrait from a 2MB JPEG.
>>>>
>>>> You are in the Photography business, not Joe Sixpack sitting at
>>>> home surfing the web.
>>>
>>> And you're Tony Troll, the all seeing, all knowing expert on what
>>> we all do for a living. Get a life dork. You don't know me, or
>>> anyone else here for that matter.
>>
>> Your the one with the problem not me.....
>
> Can you say " welcome to the killfile"... plonk!

Hell I don't plan on going to Arizona anytime soon anyway.

[Christopher L. Estep]

"Frank" > wrote in message
...
> Tom Barclay wrote:
> >>>>> "David H. Lipman" > came forth with
> >>>>> the following in microsoft.public.windowsxp.hardware
> >>>>>> The Operating system needs to see the entire disk. This is
> >>>>>> done by installing WinXP SP1.
> >>>>> I don't see why
> >>>>> I can see my two 160Gb drives, and I haven't got SP1 installed
> >> --
> >>>>> Mark
> >
> >> I cannot in my wildest dreams imagine what I could put on a PC to
> >> even begin to use 320GB, (legally that is)
> >
> > I do. As a photographer, I routinely scan slides to .TIFF files,
> > each of which vary between 20MB and 80MB, depending on the
> > resolution quality desired. Customers would have a tough time
> > making a life size portrait from a 2MB JPEG.
>
> You are in the Photography business, not Joe Sixpack sitting at
> home surfing the web.

Usually the PC is not *just* used by Joe, but by Jane (recipes and other
items, especially if she is running a home-based business) and by JoJo (son
currently in high school) for everything from English essays to
science/math/World History classwork/hgih-school or even collegiate-level CS
(especially if he is in the local Cisco Academy).

If you use your PC as a TiVO, capturing TV also chews up serious space (if
you want to do *any* quality capturing, you need to capture to either MPEG-4
with Xvid or Divx (somewhat lossy) or MPEG-2 (lossless but outputs *HUGE*
files)). In fact, one of the biggest recently-solved problems with
capturing to MPEG-2 was finding a removable medium capacious enough to store
the files offline natively (a one-hour MPEG-2 will more than fill a CD-R).

Now enter the multiformat DVD burner. Joe (or more likely JoJo) can burn
two hours of captures to DVD in less than 30 minutes and view them on the
DVD player in the family room (or any other DVD player). I am looking at
the larger-sized SATA drives for precisely this reason.

Christopher L. Estep